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Friday, July 6, 2018

Milestones: JA1AN, K6KU, W6SZN, Silent Keys

Three prominent amateurs became
Silent Keys in June...

Shozo Hara, JA1AN, who served as president of the Japan
Amateur Radio League (JARL) for 41 years, passed away on June 9. He was also a
member of the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. According to Alinco's Nakata
"Naky" Katsumi, Hara had been licensed since 1952 and had also
chaired the Japan Equestrian Foundation and was a member of the Japanese
Olympic Committee.

Jack Curtis, K6KU, became a
Silent Key on June 4. Curtis developed the first keyer-on-a-chip in 1968 and
his invention revolutionized Morse code sending. According to the ARRL Letter, Curtis's keyer chips were
built into many amateur transceivers of the late 20th century and were the
basis of a wide variety of commercial memory keyers.

Finally, Kip Edwards, W6SZN, passed
away on June 6. Edwards was a director and secretary of the YASME Foundation at
the time of his death at age 71. An attorney, DXer and DXpeditioner, Edwards
had also served previously as president of both the Northern California Contest
Club and the Northern California DX Club. The ARRL Letter reports he had retired from his legal practice five
years ago and moved to Washington
State.

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